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...panel's initial findings have now been made public. In a series of essays titled Galileo Galilei: 350 Years of History, published in Italian and French editions, nine Catholic scholars, including one American, acknowledge that the church was wrong in silencing Galileo. Writes Archbishop Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture and editor of the collection: "The judges who condemned Galileo committed an error...
While supporters of the banished priest rallied at evening Masses and continued their hunger strike, a delegation took the case to church authorities. With Glemp on a monthlong visit to Brazil and Argentina, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, who succeeded Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of Cracow, gave the petitioners a sympathetic hearing. But church leaders were not likely to go against the absent Primate and split the church into quarreling factions. Ursus parishioners finally agreed to "suspend" their hunger strike and protests after Nowak appeared at an evening Mass and pleaded with his former congregation to remember that "first...
Church officials say they expect the new archbishop will go beyond continuing racial balance in parochial schools and take an active role in improving Boston's race relations inside and outside the Church...
Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn agrees that the new archbishop will need to address racial problems. Calling Law's record "one of concern," Flynn says that "in Boston, that is what is important...
Powers anticipates that Law will do the same for Boston and adds that he sees the new archbishop as a mediator between the reformist American school of thought and the traditional Vatican view on the matter...